Dana Priest Quotes
We were falling deeper and deeper into a secret running of the government.
A decade after 9-11, Priest was the journalist who created the Washington Post history of the “War on Terror.”
Dana Priest, Journalist, Description of the George W, Bush Administration After 9-11, PBS Frontline, September 6, 2011
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After Truman's firing of General Douglas MacArthur;
The Illuminati was a secret society. At the time, anyone who differed with the Church on issues of philosophy, ethics or religion could be tortured and burned at the stake, and anyone who criticized the Monarchy could be tortured and hung or beheaded. The result was the concept of a secret society of which the Illuminati was one.
Begala was commenting on a newspaper expose that President Bush had appointed over 100 lobbyists to administrative government posts in the area for which they had previously lobbied.
Goldsmith headed the Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel—the office that makes legal opinions to guide the Federal Government’s conduct. The George W. Bush White House had decided that the War on Terror required spying on American citizens under certain circumstances but the existing laws required that in each case, they obtain a warrant from a special FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) Court. They were afraid that the court might not grant the warrants in all cases so in some cases ignored the requirements to go through the court. Addington and some other White House staff felt that if there was one more terrorist incident in the United States, they could pressure Congress into getting rid of the FISA court.
In addition to creating many protests from the public, the Bush administration was reprimanded by the Supreme Court which stated that the detention of an American Citizen as an enemy combatant. The administration must charge and try such an American for treason, assault, conspiracy or whatever crimes the facts substantiate. The administration could not just hold a citizen without due judicial processes. They certainly could not detain a citizen and then secretly or openly execute him/her without a trial, conviction, and sentence with all appeals exhausted.
Dana Louise Priest is an American journalist, writer and teacher. She has worked for nearly 30 years for the Washington Post and became the third John S. and James L. Knight Chair in Public Affairs Journalism at the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism in 2014. Before becoming a full-time investigative reporter at the Post, Priest specialized in intelligence reporting and wrote many articles on the U.S. "War on terror" and was the newspaper's Pentagon correspondent. In 2006 she won the Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting citing "her persistent, painstaking reports on secret "black site" prisons and other controversial features of the government's counter-terrorism campaign." The Washington Post won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, citing the work of reporters Priest and Anne Hull and photographer Michel du Cille "exposing mistreatment of wounded veterans at Walter Reed Hospital, evoking a national outcry and producing reforms by federal officials."
